ETF comparison
AGG vs VCSH
US Aggregate Bond vs US Corporate Bond.
iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF · Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
2,970 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of AGG and VCSH would leave roughly 8.8% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.030% vs 0.030%).
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with AGG vs VCSH.
Top shared holdings
2,970 shared in total| # | Holding | In AGG | In VCSH | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | T-MOBILE USA INC | 0.02% | 0.19% | 0.02% |
| 2 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.02% | 0.23% | 0.02% |
| 3 | United States Treasury | 0.11% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 4 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.02% | 0.13% | 0.02% |
| 5 | ABBVIE INC | 0.02% | 0.21% | 0.02% |
| 6 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.02% | 0.03% | 0.02% |
| 7 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.02% | 0.16% | 0.02% |
| 8 | MORGAN STANLEY | 0.02% | 0.04% | 0.02% |
| 9 | DEUTSCHE TELEKOM INT FIN | 0.01% | 0.14% | 0.01% |
| 10 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO | 0.01% | 0.14% | 0.01% |
| 11 | MORGAN STANLEY | 0.01% | 0.15% | 0.01% |
| 12 | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 0.01% | 0.11% | 0.01% |
Only in AGG
10,296 total- United States Treasury 0.42%
- United States Treasury 0.41%
- United States Treasury 0.41%
- United States Treasury 0.40%
- United States Treasury 0.40%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.39%
- United States Treasury 0.38%
Only in VCSH
29 total- United States Treasury Note/Bond 0.83%
- HSBC Holdings PLC 0.06%
- Commonwealth Bank of Australia/New York NY 0.05%
- Westpac Banking Corp 0.05%
- BlackRock Funding Inc/DE 0.05%
- BlackRock Funding Inc/DE 0.04%
- BlackRock Funding Inc 0.03%
- Augusta SpinCo Corp 0.03%
- UBS AG/Stamford CT 0.03%
- Pinnacle Bank/Nashville TN 0.03%
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More comparisons with AGG
- AGG vs IGLB · iShares 10+ Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 7.9%
- AGG vs VMBS · Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund ETF Shares 7.6%
- AGG vs SPLB · State Street SPDR Portfolio Long Term Corporate Bond ETF 7.4%
- AGG vs VCLT · Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 6.9%
- AGG vs JCPB · JPMorgan Core Plus Bond ETF 6.8%
- AGG vs SCHI · Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 6.6%
More comparisons with VCSH
- VCSH vs SCHZ · Schwab U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF 8.7%
- VCSH vs VCIT · Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares 1.0%
- VCSH vs GOVT · iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF 0.9%
- VCSH vs SCHI · Schwab 5-10 Year Corporate Bond ETF 0.8%
- VCSH vs IGIB · iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF 0.5%
- VCSH vs SHY · iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF 0.0%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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